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Mounds of scaffolding have encased the building since the project began last spring, causing human traffic jams whenever classes change. The exterior will not be completed until November and cleaning the stained glass windows will take four and a half years, according to Project Manager Peter J. Riley...
Although the exterior work is nearing completion, the window cleaning process has a long...
Cleaning the facade is no easy task for the crew. First, they must wash the building's exterior with chemical detergents and high-pressure hot water, Aylward said. Then the stone portions of the facade are treated with chemicals to harden them and re-painted in the original colors, workers said...
...decades: office workers queuing up at street-side ice cream stands, red-kerchiefed flocks of Young Pioneers fidgeting in the mile-long line outside Lenin's Tomb, old women sweeping courtyards with twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will...
Behind the bland, avuncular exterior, Segovia was a man of strong feelings. The electric guitar, of course, was anathema, and he denounced rock music as a "strange, terrible and dangerous disease." He often compared the guitar to a woman and boasted of his fidelity, yet he married three times. Nor was he so self-effacing as his calm demeanor and, late in life, his sometimes indifferent performances suggested. Given the guitar's limited repertoire, Segovia felt no compunction about arranging and reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours...